Marvel's introductory film to Wakanda superhero Black Panther continues to break records, recently crossing the $1 billion mark in worldwide sales, the studio is confirming that a sequel is definitely on-track to happen.

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is also a cultural powerhouse that boasts the continent’s biggest film industry, known as Nollywood. Lagos is the country’s filmmaking hub.

Just two days ago, Nollywood’s Wakanda Forever was released.

The Nigerian version of Wakanda Forever 1&2 is set in a village in Nigeria and weaves traditional storytelling with juju/voodoo and comedic special effects to explore family and lineage in an African society.

Comic Book Resources (CBR) covered that mumble rapper, Lil Yachty, is one of two musicians to be cast as DC characters. The second of which is electro-pop singer-songwriter, Halsey, who will play Wonder Woman in the film.

Similar to BP Movie [non-spoiler] and BP Movie Spoiler threads, let this be the non spoiler version for general discussion, musings, wishful thinking, and media reports for those of us who haven't been completely spoiled/ruined with how this movie is going to play out and don't want to be shielding our eyes like vampires do UV lights every other post.

Actor Wesley Snipes has revealed John Singleton’s idea for a Black Panther film in the 1990s, which sounds as if the acclaimed filmmaker may not have understood the Marvel Comics hero.

“I laid on [Singleton] my vision of the film being closer to what you see now: the whole world of Africa being a hidden, highly technically advanced society, cloaked by a force field, Vibranium,” Snipes recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. “John was like, ‘Nah! Hah! Hah! See, he’s got the spirit of the Black Panther, but he is trying to get his son to join the [civil rights activist] organization. And he and his son have a problem, and they have some strife because he is trying to be politically correct and his son wants to be a knucklehead.'”

“I am loosely paraphrasing our conversation,” the actor continued. “But ultimately, John wanted to take the character and put him in the civil rights movement. And I’m like, ‘Dude! Where’s the toys?! They are highly technically advanced, and it will be fantastic to see Africa in this light opposed to how Africa is typically portrayed.’ I wanted to see the glory and the beautiful Africa. The jewel Africa.”

“I love John, but I am so glad we didn’t go down that road,” Snipes continued, “because that would have been the wrong thing to do with such a rich project.”

Terminal objective:Talk about how awesome Wesley Snipes is!Alternative objectiveTalk about that dummy John Singleton's idea!

Marvel Animation is working with the LEGO Group on an animated film centered on Black Panther. Black Panther: Trouble In Wakanda was announced by Marvel's VP of Animation Cort Lane during a panel Sunday at New York Comic Con.

I hear these white folks, lgbt bandwagoners and new blacks say this a lot.

Personally, I don't want my T'Challa humanized or relatable. I want him to kick your favorite character's ass! (unless your favorite character is T'Challa) and have a bad female waiting for him back at the crib mansion.

But I am a simple man with simple desires.

Terminal Objective: Share your stance on the "humanizing" (or humbling) of T'Challa as a mechanism to make him more relatable/acceptable/appreciable to those of us who apparently want him to be our personal man-child black Peter Parker.

Questions to Consider:

Who asked for T'Challa to be "humanized"? Were you asking for this?

Who gets to decide what human is?

T'Challa wasn't human in Hudlin's run? If not, did you care? How about Priest's?

Do you relate to Peter Parker?

If so, have you been dating model looking chicks since 16 like Peter Parker? Major props if so.

Lois Lane being the world's greatest reporter. Mary Jane Watson becoming a world famous model. Recognized throughout all comics. That character protection when you're white and female... (but otherwise completely useless to your extremely popular main (white) character that you play the Eve to his Adam)... is epic!

But to her credit, Monica has never bleached her skin to try and get over. This is just one of the many reasons that we appreciate her.

Because "T'Challa and his Black Friends" is still my preferred title for the Crew.

Terminal Objective: If Black Panther were to get a Spider-Man/Deadpool-type buddy series (12 issues guaranteed) with an A-list creative team and a black male superhero of your choice to co-star with... give the pros and cons as to why your (best) black friend nominee would totally rock! (and suck!)

Optional Objective: Share what you would want their run to be about.

My nominee:

Pros:-Wesley Snipes baby!-Can probably keep up with T'Challa in a race-Guns and sword baby!-Most underutilized / underrated black character that can draw 140 million in the box office back before being a superhero was cool-All their strengths none of their weaknesses baby!-He's kind of a dick but in a hilarious way (see: Hudlin's run)

Cons:-Nobody cares about vampires anymore, zombies are the rave-He's been dead in the water creatively for, like, forever.. outside of his first 2 movies-They gotta expand him to more than just vamps, like mystical ish-Dante from Devil May Cry jacked his entire style and ran with it, with the mystical ish-They want to retire him and have his out of wedlock child take over-He is a bit of a dick (see: Hudlin's run)

Terminal Objective: Make a case for why a marvel female of your choice would be a great love interest for T'Challa. Then make a case for why she wouldn't be.

Optional Objective: Express your appreciation/unappreciation for the abundance of love interests T'Challa has had in his publication history.

I'll start it off:

Monica Rambeau

Pros: Down to earth, Louisiana (I think) black woman. Super powerful. Former Leader of the Avengers in the 80s (i think). Had a short but cute flirtatious history with T'Challa. MCU available Can't claim she's a downgrade from Storm.

Cons: T'Challa already has someone named Monica, could be confusing for him. She's with Blue Marvel. She's treated as the red headed step child of Captain Marvels. She may be too powerful to be a regular (speed of light can be a bitch to plot around... gotta start reading Flash to see how they do it with Boomerang and Captain Cold ass villains). Carol Danvers will need her as her token black friend in her MCU solo, can they share her?